Do Fundo do Coração

                                                "Chelsea Hotel" , ao vivo em San Sebastian, 1988

Leonard Cohen

 

"Chelsea Hotel" é uma sublime dedicatória a Janis Joplin, outra figura mítica do meu universo musical.

A sua música é apaixonante; os seus poemas, fortes e plenos de emoção; o seu charme é de um verdadeiro "gentleman"; a sua entrega e generosidade nos concertos ao vivo, mantêm-me sua fã incondicional há mais de 30 anos.

Em 2010, por feliz coincidência, assisti ao concerto de LC, no Pavilhão Atlântico, exactamente no dia do meu aniversário.

Puro deleite!

Já este ano foi-lhe atribuido o prémio "Príncipe das Astúrias", o primeiro a ser entregue a uma figura da "Pop".

Que viva por muitos e bons anos!

É o que lhe desejo do fundo do coração.


Céu

The days of kindness Greece is a good place to look at the moon, isn’t it You can read by moonlight You can read on the terrace You can see a face as you saw it when you were young There was good light then oil lamps and candles and those little flames that floated on a cork in olive oil What I loved in my old life I haven’t forgotten It lives in my spine Marianne and the child The days of kindness It rises in my spine and it manifests as tears I pray that loving memory exists for them too the precious ones I overthrew for an education in the world Hydra, 1985 You Have Loved Enough (Ten New Songs 2001) I came to You with sorrow – You said, “Come to me with bread”. I could not make a living – You employed me with the dead. I chose the marble chambers – But You sent me down below. You kept me from believing Until You let me know: That I am not the one who loves – It's Love that seizes me! When hatred with his package comes, You forbid delivery. And when the hunger for Your touch rises from the hunger, You whisper, “Child ,you've loved enough, now let Me be the Lover”. Hydra, 2000